For World of Warcraft’s 20th birthday there is a stylish phoenix mount. We’ll tell you how to unlock the mount very quickly.
In addition to the chic Tier 2 sets in HD optics, there is another highlight of the twentieth anniversary of World of Warcraft – the beautiful mount called Cold Flame Storm. In this guide, we’ll show you how to complete the 8 necessary steps to permanently add this mount to your collection.
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What kind of mount is this? The Cold Flame Storm is a blue-colored phoenix that is also equipped with silver armor. The Phoenix is based on the Ashes of Al’ar, one of the most popular mounts of all time – only in the blue colors of Blizzard.
You can only earn the mount during WoW’s 20th anniversary celebrations, i.e. until the beginning of January 2025.
What do you have to do for Cold Flame Storm? To permanently unlock Cold Flame Storm for your collection, you’ll need to complete one of the event’s major meta achievements. The success is called A Cool Twenty Years. This requires 8 different steps. But don’t worry: you can complete most of the steps within a few minutes, so most of you should have unlocked the mount in one evening.
Unlock Cold Flame Storm Mount – All Steps
You can complete most of the steps in Tanaris. The celebrations take place in front of the Caves of Time and that’s where most of the activities you’ll need to succeed are. If an achievement cannot be completed there, this is noted in the respective step.
Please note that the necessary events, such as the mount show, rotate regularly. You can always see which event is coming up next at the top of the screen.
I have that! (I Have That One!): At the mount show you have to get on the mount that is being demonstrated by the NPC. The larger your mount collection, the sooner this will happen. But sooner or later a mount will appear that you probably own. Simply level up at the same time as the NPC Abigail Cyrildotr and you have completed this part.
Fashion Critic: Vote at least once in the transmog competition.
Pet Mischief: Use a pet mirror on a battle pet to take on its appearance. You can find the mirror in the pet corner of the celebration.
Balloonist (balloonist): Fly in one of the celebration balloons found at the festival grounds in Tanaris.
In the Cheap Seats (Peanut Gallery): Listen to Lesson Seeker Cho’s stories and react to his stories 50x. You will have to listen to several stories to get to 50.
An Original (An Original): Defeat one of the event’s vanilla world bosses. This can be either one of the Nightmare Dragons, Azuregos, or Lord Kazzak. You can see which boss is currently active on the world map. These bosses are not in Tanaris, but in different locations, such as Ashenvale or Azshara.
A Gatecrasher: Defeat one of the newer event world bosses. Sha of Wrath, Doomwalker, or Archavon the Stonewarden. You can find these world bosses directly in Tanaris.
Codex Editor: Ahn’Qiraj (Codex Editor: Ahn’Qiraj): Complete the Ahn’Qiraj scenario with Chromie once. You can simply register for this via the Dungeon Browser. The scenario lasts 10-20 minutes, depending on how good your group is.
Once you have completed all of these tasks, you will unlock the achievement “A Cool Twenty Years” and can look forward to your new phoenix mount. Afterwards you can then turn directly to the numerous other activities of the anniversary – because there is a lot to do in the 2 ½ months in which the event is active. If you want other mounts, here are 5 from The War Within that you can easily farm.